Engraved, illustrated title pages, by Theodor de Bry

Title v.2: Icones virorum illustrium, doctrina & eruditione præstantium contines [sic], quorum alij inter vivos esse desierunt, alij nune quoq[ue] vitatj aura[m] fruuntur cum vitis eorum, descriptes [sic] a I.E. Boissardo Vesunt recéns in ære artificiose o[mn]ia incisa & publicata a Theodoro de Bry Leodien Francfordiji Anno M D IIC [1598]. At head of title: II. pars

Title v.3: III. pars Iconum virorum illustrium, quorum alii quidem inter vivos esse iam olim desierunt, alij vero nunc quoq[ue] vitali aura, honorumq[ue] suorum beati per fruuntur gloria. Natalium eorundem succincta notatio, singulis iconibus adiuncta: Disticha passim addita singulis, opera et studio[.] Omnia in ære recens scite facta, et edita per Hæredes Theodori de Brÿ. Francfordij ad Moenum Anno MDIIC. [1598]

Title v.4: IV pars Iconum viros virtute atque eruditione, illustres repræsentantium, quorum alij inter vivos esse jam olim desierunt, alij vero nunc quoq[ue] vitali lumine honorum et dignitatum suarum perfruuntur gloria[.] Natalium eorundem breuis & succincta notatio, singulis eiconibus adiuncta distista item passim addita, opera & studio[.] In ære recens sceite facta & forûs data, per hæredes Theodorj de Brÿ Leod. Franfordij [sic] ad Moenu[m]. Anno MDXCIX [1599]

Colophon v. 3-4: Impressum Francfordii ad Mœnum, typis Matthæi Beckeri: impensis Hæredum Theodori de Bry. Anno M. D. IIC. - Anno M. D. XCIX. [1598-1599]

Text for v.3-4 by Johann Adam Lonicerus, according to preface (v.3: p. [5]). Dedicatory verses (v.3: p. [7]) signed: Teucrides Annæus Lonicerus Priuatus; preface (v.4: p. [6]) signed: I.A.L; dedicatory verses (v.4: p. [8]) signed: Ioan. Adamus Lonicerus, alias Annæus Priuatus

Signatures: v.1: A-2O⁴ (A1 verso blank); v.2: A-2P⁴ 2Q² (A1 verso blank); v.3: )(⁴ A-2T⁴ ()(1 verso, )(4 verso, 2T4 verso blank); v.4: )(⁴ A-2V⁴ ()(1 verso, 2V4 verso blank). Several additional leaves virtually blank, only bearing the page number and signature designation

Numerous errors in paging

Portraits numbered: v.1: I., I. [bis]-XLIX. (1-50 in index); v.2: I.-IIII., no. [5-48] unnumbered in text, numbered 3[i.e. 5]-16., 71.[i.e. 17.], 18.-48. in index; v.3: I-L. (1.-50. in index); v.4: I.-L. (1-50. in index); also, additionally, 1 unnumb. portrait of the author in v. 1 and 2

Errata (v.2: p. [8] at end)

Contains portraits and biographies of Columbus and more than 30 other persons who have written about the Americas

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675

Alden, J.E. European Americana

Kramer, I.E. Die wunderbare Neue Welt

Cionarescu, A. 16s.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound, in contemporary calf, in 2 v. (v. 1/2; 3/4). Gathering O in v.1 (p. 105-112) misbound, following gathering L and preceding gathering M

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